Magazine Gateway - Historic Leicester Series (Traditional cache)
Leicester Castle - Historic Leicester Series (Traditional cache)
Santa Rosa, Philippenes Unite for Diabetes TravelbugArrived Leicester at 9.45 after a journey of just over 3 hours. First stop was the canal. In previous times, I would have walked along the canal from the city centre to Filbert Street (now Walkers Stadium) to watch Leicester City.
Pic. 1: Grand Union CanalIn more recent times, the canal became an important site for Maalie's swan research, as captured in the photo. Can't tell if it's ringed or not.
The first geocache of the day was the Magazine Gateway cache. This was a small micro cache hidden behind a gutter pipe on this historic monument. Very pleased to get off the mark in Leicestershire. Grabbed the Diabetes travelbug.
Pic. 2: Brucciani's
Then went in to the city centre for the main task of the day, to collect notes about Bruccianis restaurant. My aim is to develop the piece I have drafted in the Creative writing class.
Bruccianis is quite an unremarkable restaurant, but it is part of Leicester folklore. Of particular intererst to me is the lemon split, my own favourite and mentioned by Sue Thownsend in the most recent Diary of Adrian Mole.
Pic 3: Iced lemon split
There are two Brucciani's cafes, both within a hundred metres of the clock tower in the city centre. Had tea and a baguette in the smaller of the two, before meeting up with Maalie to the larger of the two restaurants for my tea and a lemon split.
We left Bruccianis and I took Maalie to the Magazine Gateway cache. Then we both went on to the Castle cache - another thin micro. Maalie unecesarilly trampled into the flower beds whilst I located the cache on the railings.
